TY - JOUR
T1 - Formal justification in object-oriented modelling: a linguistic approach.
AU - Capuchino, A.M.M.
AU - Juristo, N.
AU - van de Riet, R.P.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - When software engineers set out to build a system, they usually have the informal idea that there is a relation between the linguistic world and the conceptual world. In this paper, we present a formalisation of this empirical relation, defining an intermediate mapping of the components of the linguistic and conceptual worlds to their mathematical representations. This process outputs a justified correspondence between natural language, used as a means of communication between users and software engineers, and conceptual models, employed by software engineers as a first step towards building a system. In other words, our aim is to show how the equivalence of the linguistic and conceptual representations of a requirement can be established in a formal and justified manner.
AB - When software engineers set out to build a system, they usually have the informal idea that there is a relation between the linguistic world and the conceptual world. In this paper, we present a formalisation of this empirical relation, defining an intermediate mapping of the components of the linguistic and conceptual worlds to their mathematical representations. This process outputs a justified correspondence between natural language, used as a means of communication between users and software engineers, and conceptual models, employed by software engineers as a first step towards building a system. In other words, our aim is to show how the equivalence of the linguistic and conceptual representations of a requirement can be established in a formal and justified manner.
U2 - 10.1016/S0169-023X(99)00046-4
DO - 10.1016/S0169-023X(99)00046-4
M3 - Article
VL - 33
SP - 25
EP - 48
JO - Data and Knowledge Engineering
JF - Data and Knowledge Engineering
SN - 0169-023X
IS - 1
ER -